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2015 Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia, LLC. All Rights ReservedAmerican Beauty: The Bloom Comes off the Rose Editor&#39;s Note: The following is a free edition of Jeff Cooper&#39;s Daily Market Report. For a two-week FREE trial of his daily commentary and nightly day and swing trading picks click here. American woman gonna mess your mind -American Woman (Kale Peterson Cummings Bachman) Jane. Honey. Are you trying to look unattractive? -Carolyn Burman portrayed by Annette Bening in American Beauty The most important stock in the US and arguably the world did a back flip yesterday. On Wednesday Apple (AAPL) suffered its worse one-day loss since 2008. In a nutshell AAPL is crashing. For the second time. Following ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/12/06/american-beauty-the-bloom-comes/
Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:55:00 EDTAT&amp;T Approached RIM to Make Apple Competitor -- While It Held Monopoly Over US iPhonesMINYANVILLE ORIGINAL&nbsp; Yesterday Research In Motion&nbsp;(RIMM) recorded a face-ripping loss of $0.37 per share for the last quarter way steeper than analyst estimates of $0.03. And if that wasn&#39;t enough the Canadian company will be laying off nearly a third of its workforce and pushing back the already-late (probably due to being shorthanded engineers) BlackBerry 10 operating system. If there are any BlackBerry fans out there (besides those trend-setting hipsters at the Department of Defense) they probably like it for the physical keyboard or their bosses just force it on them because of RIM&#39;s reputation for high-security. BB10 will not ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/06/29/att-approached-rim-to-make/
Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:12:00 EDTIs RIM at the Mercy of King Solomon? Another week another rumor about Research In Motion&#39;s (RIMM) future. The latest of which according to Reuters is that RIM is considering splitting its business in two. The company&#39;s intent is to separate the struggling handset manufacturing division from the messaging network and possibly sell off the hardware business. The Sunday Times citing unnamed sources reported that Facebook (FB) and Amazon (AMZN) could be &ldquo;potential buyers.&rdquo; Another option mentioned by the British newspaper is that the company may stay intact but could sell off a big stake to a larger tech company like Microsoft (MSFT). RIM&rsquo;s issues have been ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/06/25/is-rim-at-the-mercy/
Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:55:00 EDTBlackBerry Deemed 'Coolest Brand' in Shocking Survey Among America&rsquo;s youth the BlackBerry is about as &ldquo;cool&rdquo; as a Saturday night rerun of The Lawrence Welk Show on PBS. Try as Research in Motion (RIMM) did to be &ldquo;better and bolder in 2012&rdquo; with its embarrassingly out-of-touch &quot;Bold Team&quot; promotion featuring multicultural superhero characters the under-18 market hasn&rsquo;t found itself clamoring for a tactile key PDA this year. &nbsp; Sadly BlackBerry can&rsquo;t even get any love anymore in its home country. Canucks are now abandoning the Waterloo Ontario-based company&rsquo;s flagship product for Apple&rsquo;s (AAPL) iPhone by a margin of nearly 40%. But when the youth market&rsquo;s door ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/06/20/blackberry-deemed-coolest-brand-in/
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:55:00 EDTRIM's Incompetence Knows No Bounds How much more can we really take of this? Is this what&#39;s become of this once-promising company? It&#39;s absolutely pathetic. Even at the very end -- a death that everyone saw coming -- Research in Motion (RIMM) manages to top its most incompetent arrogant and utterly inept decisions with the biggest public gaffe possible. Former co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie are arguably the men responsible for piloting RIM right into the mountain. They ignored the meteoric rise of the iPhone (AAPL) and Android (GOOG) allowed themselves to get out-innovated by Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) waved goodbye as ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/06/15/rims-incompetence-knows-no-bounds/
Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:00:00 EDTRIM's Marketing Is the Absolute Worst Two weeks ago a busload of protesters clad in black swarmed the window of an Australian Apple Store (AAPL). Video blogger Nate &quot;Blunty&quot; Burr was able to capture the flash mob fiasco as a megaphone-wielding firebrand whipped the crowd into a frenzy leading them in a chant of &quot;Wake up!&quot; while holding up signs emblazoned with the phrase. Given Samsung&#39;s decidedly anti-Apple marketing campaigns in recent months tech blogs attributed the scene to just another stunt perpetrated by the Android (GOOG)-centric South Korean manufacturer. After all it wasn&#39;t something we would put past them. But Samsung subsequently denied being ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/05/07/rims-marketing-is-the-absolute/
Mon, 7 May 2012 12:46:00 EDTRIM to Die With Its Boots On Well RIM (RIMM) announced its fourth quarter earnings yesterday and surprisingly the results were only slightly worse than expected. The flailing manufacturer lost $125 million before adjustments on a revenue of $4.19 billion which is down 19% from the previous quarter and earnings dropped to $0.80 per share. Analysts had predicted earnings of $0.81 and sales of $4.51 billion. CEO Thorsten Heins also announced a shakeup amongst the top brass with former co-CEO Jim Balsillie resigning from the board and Software CTO David Yach and COO of Global Operations Jim Rowan getting axed. But judging from the Globe and ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/03/30/rim-to-die-with-its/
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:51:00 EDTOh No, RIM Is Trying Comedy Typically when an aged public figure has fallen out of favor with the youth market -- or was never able to tap into it in the first place -- the individual tries his or her hand in comedy as a way to &quot;connect with the kids.&quot; John McCain appeared on SNL Pat Boone donned a leather vest and temporary tattoos at the MTV Awards and Andrew &quot;Dice&quot; Clay well returned to stand-up. But depending on the material the delivery and the person&#39;s amenability toward self-deprecation the result could either be wildly successful (Betty White) or an embarrassing train wreck ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/03/09/oh-no-rim-is-trying/
Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:44:00 EDTCrackberry Still RIM's Over the past year we&rsquo;ve seen fake Apple (AAPL) Stores Chinese iPads (or rather Chinese companies laying claim to the word iPad) more trademark claims than I care to count on Jeremy Lin&rsquo;s name and a baby clothes store called Jordan (in honor of Michael) Taro. What could possibly be next? The answer comes to us right out of 2007. Two days ago the US Patent and Trademark Office&rsquo;s Trademark Trial and Appeal board ruled that Defining Presence Marketing Group couldn&rsquo;t trademark &ldquo;Crackberry.&rdquo; According to the National Law Journal Defining Presence filed four trademark applications for the word Crackberry ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/02/29/crackberry-still-rims/
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:15:00 EDTRIM Still as Clueless and Arrogant as Ever When will the madness end? When will Research in Motion (RIMM) finally unabashedly own up to its own mistakes -- without equivocation without displacing blame? Over the last few years -- as Apple (AAPL) introduced the iPhone as Google (GOOG) unleashed one flagship Android device after another and even as Nokia (NOK) and Microsoft (MSFT) took a chance on an unlikely partnership and delivered something impressive -- RIM has shaken its head in disgust at consumers who simply &quot;don&#39;t get it.&quot; Less than a year ago former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis ranted against the critics and users who haven&#39;t &quot;appreciated&quot; ...http://www.minyanville.com/mvpremium/2012/02/13/rim-still-as-clueless-and/
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